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say it: suh-LOOT
salute is a verb and noun meaning "propose a toast to". It carries 9 recorded senses.
“I meet this men every day on my way to work and he salutes me”
honor with a military ceremony, as when honoring dead soldiers
an act of honor or courteous recognition
“a musical salute to the composer on his birthday”
an act of greeting with friendly words and gestures like bowing or lifting the hat
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for salute come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.